Secular-Culture

Catholic dating differs from secular dating culture not just in its rules but in its entire purpose. Secular dating culture generally treats dating as recreation, self-discovery, or a search for personal happiness. Catholic dating is vocational discernment — a prayerful, community-supported process of determining whether God is calling you to marry a specific person. The difference isn’t just about what you do on dates. It’s about why you’re dating at all. ...

Secular culture offers you two options for your body, and neither one is true. Option one: your body is a product to optimize, display, and leverage for attention. Option two: your body doesn’t really matter — it’s just biology, and what you do with it has no deeper significance. The Catholic view rejects both. Your body is a gift, a sign, and a language — and it speaks the truth about who you are whether you’re listening or not. ...